Red Schoendienst (Albert Fred Schoendienst) Quotes
I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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I choose to express myself.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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I have a love for boxing.
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I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity with better diversity in TV shows, especially for Asian actors. I agree with that 100 per cent.
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Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.
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I think, in a large way, it's, 'OK, you've knelt; you've made your point.' But I don't necessarily feel like that. I don't know what that looks like. Do I kneel forever? I don't know, probably not. But I think until I can feel like I'm being more effective in other ways, then this seems appropriate to me.
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I have been recording for five decades now.
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Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.
Colson Whitehead -
The railroads once were a dominant power in American life, for good and for ill. There's something inevitably nostalgic about a train book today. Trains attract us, but part of that attraction is cultural memory.
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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
